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From: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: ont.general,tor.general
Subject: Re: Local newsgroup proposals
Message-ID: <3205@geac.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 12:49:35 GMT
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In article <325@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>In article <3198@geac.UUCP>, david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:

>> What is wrong with saying "Post somewhere else for a while and *show*
>> us you have the volume to create a new group?"

>What is wrong is that volume alone is not criteria for creating a newsgroup.
>Is the value of a group totally dependent on the traffic it creates?

As an aside, how do you assess the value of a group of which you have
no knowledge?

>You want tonnage? Create ont.bizzare. It's very easy to generate lots of
>noise. Give me groups where there are few postings, but all are useful.

Useful in what respect? One man's garbage...

It appears, through this and other email I have received, that no one
else thinks this is a big deal. So, I will let it drop. I just have a
strong adversion to being asked to vote for things of which I have no
knowledge, such as the validity of a new newsgroup.

>> For example, I want to start a group about X windows. Quite a lot of people
>> say "yes, do it". So I say fine, and start it up. No one posts to it.

>What would be in your proposed group which would not be appropriate to
>comp.windows.x, which already exists? What makes Canadian X-Windows different
>from the U.S. flavour? Uniqueness is just as important a criteria as volume.

I don't really want to post world-wide that I have just added the
latest version of xphoon to the Canadian Archives. Similarly, other
folk asking for, say, a site to make the X tapes for them, might only
want to ask the Canadian folks first. 

Yes, the distribution clause of the news posters would handle this, but
in a very clumsy way when compared to a specific news group.

>Evan Leibovitch, SA of System Telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario